RE: Subscript omega used for rounded fricatives ?

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Apr 20 2005 - 11:48:55 CST

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    > From: unicore-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicore-bounce@unicode.org]
    On Behalf
    > Of Patrick Andries

    > I noticed in Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson's The Sound of the
    > World's languages [1] the use of a subscript omega to indicate rounded
    > fricatives (pp. 358,360). Is there a Unicode character to represent
    such
    > a subscript omega ?

    It's encoded as U+032B COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH BELOW.

    > Do other authors use this symbol ?

    It was an IPA recommendation until it was withdrawn in 1989, superceded
    by a superscript w (U+02B7).

    Peter Constable

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